Array Advisors Services Brochure

Discovering Your Healthcare Solutions Together.

What We Do

Array Advisors partners with health systems to strategically position them for success. Our approach goes beyond conventional planning services and focuses on developing sustainable business solutions for an evolving healthcare environment. Using Lean principles as a foundation, we develop a tailored plan to help you overcome challenges, prepare for value-based models, and seize capital planning opportunities to improve health outcomes.

Who We Are

We are healthcare experts, innovators, planners, and engineers— inspired by transforming our clients’ operations through custom solutions to demanding challenges. Our team members have active listening best practices in their DNA, leading with a collaborative process rooted in Lean methodologies and unparalleled data analysis. And at the heart of everything we do is an unrelenting drive to help clients achieve exceptional health care, create healthier communities, and realize the quintuple aim.

Our Approach

We layer strategy, transformation, and dynamic planning into our approach, pairing an understanding of how clients work with the right cross-functional perspectives to gain consensus around future goals.

CONTACT US:

Jonathan Bykowski, AIA President 610-755-6452

jbykowski@array-advisors.com

Michael Rovinsky

Vice President, Strategic Planning 678-641-9316

mrovinsky@array-advisors.com

Laura Moran Health Systems Engineer 610-755-6423

lmoran@array-advisors.com

Jillian Barbaro Strategic Planner

202-788-5631

jbarbaro@array-advisors.com

Our Services

We help clients deliver more efficient and effective care, stake a more competitive position in the market, and plan to ensure facilities embody their operational vision.

Strategic Planning

We work with health systems to develop strategies that drive sustainable business models across the continuum of care. We help you reach consensus around strategy to supercharge your plan for the future.

Master Planning

Master planning should not occur in a silo. We integrate strategy, operations, facility, and financial considerations in an iterative process to develop a master plan that can be implemented and provides the flexibility to accommodate future unknowns.

Pre-design Planning & Optimization

Building a new facility is not always the right answer. Before you go down that path, we work with you to understand whether you are experiencing a physical issue, an operational issue, or both. We use lean methodologies and simulation modeling to analyze your workflows and pinpoint the root cause of your problem leading to a more focused investment of your capital dollars.

Lean Practitioner Training

Array’s Lean Practitioner Course provides an overview of systems-thinking using the PDSA (Plan, Do, Study, Adjust) cycle as its framework for problem-solving. Participants will learn the history, philosophy, and principles of lean improvement. At the end of this three-day program, attendees will better understand how to identify waste in a process, uncover the root cause(s) of a problem, and formulate a countermeasure that considers the voice of the stakeholders. The Lean Practitioner Course is available as a certificate program if participants complete an improvement project following the class.

Strategic Planning Methods

Enterprise Strategy Development

As we collaboratively identify and prioritize strategies to address your most pressing challenges, we balance long-term vision with the ability to respond to near-term opportunities, fiscal constraints, and market forces. Ultimately, our goal is to guide your system through concrete, implementable strategies that are best suited for you in the context of your unique environment.

Market Analysis & Demand Forecasting

Our team aggregates multiple data sources to provide a comprehensive and dynamic view of the community you serve and your competitors. Using predictive modeling, we project how the market is likely to change, and the impact of that change on your organization and future volumes.

Service Line Planning & Optimization

The success of your service lines depends on purposeful planning and alignment with the overall strategic direction of the enterprise. We assess the composition and performance of your service lines (as well as competitors’) to determine current strengths and gaps, then generate data-driven, sustainable recommendations to guide their development.

Physician Alignment & Network Development

Your enterprise strategy relies on the engagement and performance of physicians. More integrated and accountable relationships are required between physicians and hospitals as health systems transition from episodic care to population health management. We support your team with the development of a physician alignment strategy.

Strategic Decision Support

Our team takes a data-driven approach to solving your toughest challenges. Through the application of analytical tools, such as simulation modeling, detailed process time studies, and exploratory data investigation, we help you discover solutions that are unique to your health system.

Pivotal

Pivotal is a map-based, claims-driven analytics platform equipped with a unique framework that empowers users to rapidly develop business plans, update those plans on demand, and share them with key stakeholders. The platform helps to reduce risk by aggregating all the data critical to making informed decisions, ultimately accelerating business planning by enabling health leaders to be agile.

Master Planning Methods

Market Analysis & Demand Forecasting

Our team aggregates multiple data sources to provide a comprehensive and dynamic view of the community you serve and your competitors. Using predictive modeling, we project how the market is likely to change, and the impact of that change on your organization and future volumes.

Building Infrastructure Assessment

The building infrastructure assessment is conducted through a combination of direct observation and review of existing documents and facilities maintenance data, as well as interviews with facilities engineering personnel. The assessment will be visual and identify immediate, short term, and long-range capital investments required to meet regulatory requirements.

Clinical Operations Assessment (Throughput & Resource Utilization)

Optimizing throughput and resource utilization increases efficiency, decreases cost, and may ultimately reduce the square footage required to meet project needs. We evaluate departments using multi-faceted assessment criteria and benchmarks to improve workflow and throughput, ensuring efficient utilization of space and resources.

Simulation Modeling

Building a model with readily available data from the electronic medical record allows healthcare leaders to confidently move forward with high level decisions. The simulation model can help teams see the results of various scenarios in a quick, concise manner so they can make strategic decisions supported by data analysis.

Data Analysis & Visualization

Large amounts of data are collected at every hospital. As we work to help teams determine the best solution within their unique constraints, we use data visualization to show trends in a meaningful, easily interpreted format. This approach allows teams to use their data to confidently make decisions.

Scenario Development & Evaluation

We create a cost and return-based decision matrix to distill the many options that surface through the planning process. This matrix is used for decision support throughout the master planning process and is critical in helping to clarify key strategic goals into one actionable strategy.

Financial Decision Support

Estimating the financial repercussions of individual decisions and strategies enables effective decision making. We believe that estimating processes dependent upon development milestones do not convey the right information at the right time to influence critical decisions. In our approach, we create a cost and return-based decision matrix that is used for continuous decision support.

Pre-design Planning & Optimization Methods

Process Analysis & Design

Our job is to assist with analyzing your workflows and determining where value is added. This helps us see where the waste is and eliminate those nonvalue-adding activities, allowing your work to flow more efficiently. We combine reliable tools (i.e., stakeholder engagement, failure modes and effects analysis, and process mapping) with expertise to develop a solution tailored to your organization.

Clinical Operations Assessment (Throughput & Resource Utilization)

Optimizing throughput and resource utilization increases efficiency, decreases cost, and may ultimately reduce the square footage required to meet project needs. We evaluate departments using multi-faceted assessment criteria and benchmarks to improve workflow and throughput, ensuring efficient utilization of space and resources.

Simulation Modeling

Building a model with readily available data from the electronic medical record allows healthcare leaders to confidently move forward with high level decisions. The simulation model can help teams see the results of various scenarios in a quick, concise manner so they can make strategic decisions supported by data analysis.

Value Stream Mapping

Mapping the value stream from customer request to completion is one of the best ways to determine whether your system is providing value to the customer. Value stream mapping clearly depicts the interactions between departments and technology platforms, and it shows the process times associated with each step, allowing the team to see where to focus their improvement efforts.